Such, also, is life as a young star with the Rays, who chose not to give their 26-year-old ace a few extra dollars. Snell says he will treat his contract — and the potential for making millions next spring in arbitration — as carrots. “Hopefully this pushes me. Arbitration will be the business side, and that’s what I’ll tell them," Snell told reporters Friday, per the Tampa Bay Times. “I think fair is fair....
Blatt will have Drew, Jim Boylan, Bret Brielmaier and James Posey on the bench with him along with Tyronn Lue, named an associate head coach in June. MORE: Bennett held out of Pro-Am | When do new-look Cavs debut? | How will Cavs fit Love in? Drew went 15-67 in his only season in Milwaukee. He was expected to get a second year but was fired so the Bucks could hire Jason Kidd....
Yet it was a small section towards the end of Blinken’s opening statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that was especially refreshing. Addressing the body as a whole, Blinken told the senators assembled that the Biden administration will treat the U.S. Congress as a full-voiced partner in the realm of foreign policy. “In recent years, across administrations of both parties, Congress’s voice in foreign policy has been diluted and diminished,” Blinken remarked....
“Young people listen to Bernie Sanders, and they said, ‘Yeah, democratic, that’s good. Socialism, yeah, that’s that social media stuff,’” Bloomberg said in December, a little more than a month after the 2016 election in which Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton. Bloomberg went on to explain the alleged confusion among young voters was thanks to an inadequate school curriculum and an attempt to “dumb down the system” by not offering Western history....
This little girl is beside herself because her favorite player Brett Lawrie was traded from the Blue Jays to the Athletics. They got Josh Donaldson in return, but that clearly isn’t enough for her. The six-year-old fan knows this is the end of the road for Lawrie and Toronto. “I’m positive they won’t trade him back someday, that guy’s gonna be too good!” MORE: Jon Lester latest | Trade rumors | Pirates sign Clayton Richard...
Well, to the delight of most of the crowd. At least one fan was disappointed. But the fan, Frankie Lasagna, wasn’t upset that the homer had been hit. Rather, he was upset that he hadn’t caught it. MORE: How Aaron Judge tied Roger Maris’ home run record vs. Blue Jays Lasagna, a 37-year-old owner of an Italian restaurant in Toronto, appeared to have had a chance to snag the ball after it cleared the left-field wall....
In search of a running back who would rival the famed Herschel Walker, Auburn head coach Pat Dye and assistant coach Bobby Wallace recruited Jackson. The recruitment created speculation and drama, but ultimately Jackson chose Auburn. Bobby Wallace, assistant Auburn football coach 1981-85. Currently director of athletics at the University of West Alabama: Obviously, his talent just jumped out at you. So the spring of Bo’s junior year of high school, we invited him to the spring game and got a jump on everybody in recruiting him....
The 30-year-old says he should have been called Kelvin instead of Kevin after the registrar at the birth and death certificate office misspelled his name at the blind side of his parents. He was born in West Berlin, Germany to a Ghanaian father and a German mother. “I should actually be called Kelvin and not Kevin as widely known in the world of football,” the former AC Milan star told Hit Radio FFH....
Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby, on Sunday suspended Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, based on the “seriousness of the alleged offense.” He is now barred from entering any horses at the Louisville, Kentucky, racetrack. “To be clear, if the findings are upheld, Medina Spirit’s results in the Kentucky Derby will be invalidated and [runner-up] Mandaloun will be declared the winner,” Churchill Downs said in a statement....
MORE: Top 40 college football players Adding a conference championship game. The ongoing push for conference expansion. How to bridge the revenue and television gap with the SEC and Big Ten. The nine-game conference schedule, splitting up the divisions, the Longhorn Network or even player safety. Any of those would’ve worked. MORE: Top 16 programs since 2000 Instead, Bowlsby chose to steer the focus toward the ongoing investigation at Baylor with an awkward opening statement that invited several more questions from the media and fewer answers....
Since 2013, he has been the Athletic Director at Sacred Heart University. But now, the former MLB player and manager will be taking on a new challenge: He’s going to be running for mayor of his hometown, Stamford, Conn. Valentine made the announcement via his social media platforms and YouTube on Friday and highlighted a desire to give back to his community. “The greatest commodity I have is my time, and I want to give my time and my energy and my wherewithal back to the city that has given me so much over my lifetime,” Valentine said....
The Liberty County Sheriff’s office received word that there was a dead body near Dunlevie Road, Fox28Media reported. But upon arrival around 2PM that afternoon, they found the “body” fully dressed and laying on its side. Authorities covered the doll with a sheet, and waited for the coroner to arrive, as the policy for dealing with a deceased body is not to touch it until the they arrive. Once the coroner showed up at the railroad tracks, detectives inspected the body for any sign of injury, and soon realized that it wasn’t a body at all....
Several books that are currently available from the online retailer appear to have been hastily published soon after the World Health Organization classified Omicron as a variant of concern on November 26. One such book, which is only 17 pages long and entitled Omicron and the other Covid-19 Variants : All you need to Know about Covid-19 Vaccines & Variants, was published on the same day the WHO gave Omicron its VoC designation....
CHAVEZ: That argument has no weight; it is as if someone said that this Nazi, who they captured some time ago in Brazil, who was there for years, was protected by [Brazilian President] Fernando Enrique Cardoso… From the time that we had the first unconfirmed information that Montesinos was in Venezuela, we acted. It is only a hypothesis… [But] just as it was said that I protected Montesinos, it’s been said that I gave weapons to the Colombian guerrillas and to drug traffickers, that I support subversive movements in Ecuador and indigenous rebels in Bolivia, and that I instigated the rebirth of the guerrillas in El Salvador....
Kapoor died Thursday after being admitted to a hospital in Mumbai Wednesday after complaining of breathing difficulties, according to the BBC. Kapoor has been battling cancer for the past two years. The actor was diagnosed with leukemia in 2018 and spent a lengthy period of time being treated in New York before returning to his native India last September. “The doctors and medical staff at the hospital said he kept them entertained to the last....
Results showed Lula ahead with 48.2 percent of the vote while Bolsonaro has 43.4 percent with just about 100 percent of ballots counted. Da Silva, who is commonly referred to as Lula, had been polling well-ahead of Bolsonaro in the days leading up to the election. He served as president between 2001 and 2010, and “governed in a moment of an abundance of resources and popularity,” according to Bruna Santos, a senior adviser at the Wilson Center’s Brazil Institute....
The “Booger Mobile” (as it has been called by fans) was the subject of complaints throughout the season for being obstructive. For fans at the game, the cart took up a lot of space and blocked the view of spectators in the lower level. To counter this, the network added a television carrying the delayed broadcast, which only blocked more of the view. MORE: Could Jason Witten turn into Emmitt Smith-like debacle for ESPN?...
When the birds descended, both Indians and whites set up great bonfires and tried driving them into nets. The doves ate the wheat seedlings and the rye and started on the corn. They ate the sprouts of new flowers and the buds of apples and the tough leaves of oak trees and even last year’s chaff. The doves were plump, and delicious smoked, but one could wring the necks of hundreds or thousands and effect no visible diminishment of their number....
It hadn’t started as a game. Spotting the department store nestled in this bend of the Beltway had been a private contest with herself, a way to relieve the tedium of the two-day drive home from Florida. As far back as she could remember, they had made the trip every winter break, although no one in the family enjoyed this visit to Grandmother’s house. Her Orlando apartment was cramped and smelly, her dogs mean, her meals inedible....
The lushly illustrated “Home Baking” ($40) is a National Geographic trek for the taste buds. Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid take us from Beirut to Burgundy in search of the sweet and savory. You may not actually make Tibetan overnight skillet breads, but it’s still fun to read about them. Emily Luchetti’s new book, “A Passion for Desserts” ($35), cleverly demystifies everything from coconut pavlovas to apricot jalousie tarts by explaining in concise steps how to construct all her desserts....
